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RE: getting hibernate / ACPI suspend to work
by Birt, Jeffrey 02 May '05

02 May '05

Check the achieves from last month. Someone posted a link to info about getting S2 working, I would have included the link but can't find it. Jeff Birt Electronics Engineer Integrated Systems Facility University of Missouri - Rolla 573.341.6058 -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Chris Jones Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:13 AM To: Fedora List Subject: getting hibernate / ACPI suspend to work Hi, After recently getting standby and suspend to work on my FC3 laptop (by finding out that the agp settings for the nvidia driver needed tweaking), I'm trying to get hibernate (suspend to disk) to work for my dell 8600. I run kde and activate standby / suspend from the klaptop battery icon. However, if I try hibernate nothing happens. What is this applet doing behind the scenes - Can I activate these from a console to see any errors etc. ? I understand I probably need to install something to get hibernate to work, but not sure what (software suspend 2 perhaps ?). Has anyone managed this, and do you know of any good instructions on how to do this. Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

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RE: what 'user' are acpi scripts run as? Forcing DCOP to look atcurrent user?
by Birt, Jeffrey 02 May '05

02 May '05

Dave Mitchell wrote: >On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 09:38:19PM -0500, Birt, Jeffrey wrote: >> system "su -c '/etc/acpi/actions/perl_dcop.pl false' birtj"; > >I presume you meant > > system "su birtj -c '/etc/acpi/actions/perl_dcop.pl false'"; Thanks Dave, You are of course correct. I have found that when using dcop from a console window with su -c it has to be like this. su -c 'dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface enable false' birtj Still, either method works if the acpi script is called from a root console window but not when the acpi script is called from the 'system'. The 'system' is out to get me man! ;'> Jeff Birt Electronics Engineer Integrated Systems Facility University of Missouri - Rolla 573.341.6058 -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Birt, Jeffrey Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 11:54 PM To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com Subject: what 'user' are acpi scripts run as? Forcing DCOP to look atcurrent user? In the process of getting my acpi script just right I'm trying to use DCOP to turn on/off the kdesktop screensaver setting. Working with DCOP I've discoverd that each user seems to have their own DCOP server. Running dcop from a regular console give a diffrent list of DCOP enabled processes than a root console. I am assuming that the acpi scripts are run as 'system' (or what ever the Linux equivelent is) and therefore any DCOP related calls are looking at the 'systems' DCOP server not the current user. So, can I force a script to run as another user? that is have the acpi script which is being run as 'system' call another script as the current user? Thanks, ...confused and tired......... Jeff_Birt -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

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getting hibernate / ACPI suspend to work
by Chris Jones 02 May '05

02 May '05

Hi, After recently getting standby and suspend to work on my FC3 laptop (by finding out that the agp settings for the nvidia driver needed tweaking), I'm trying to get hibernate (suspend to disk) to work for my dell 8600. I run kde and activate standby / suspend from the klaptop battery icon. However, if I try hibernate nothing happens. What is this applet doing behind the scenes - Can I activate these from a console to see any errors etc. ? I understand I probably need to install something to get hibernate to work, but not sure what (software suspend 2 perhaps ?). Has anyone managed this, and do you know of any good instructions on how to do this. Chris

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Mouse Configuration
by Adam Burke 02 May '05

02 May '05

Is there any way to reconfigure the mouse buttons in fedora? I have an IntelliMouse Explorer which has extra buttons on the side which are doing weird commands whenever i press them, and i would like to set them to be back and forward commands as they are default in windows. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Adam Burke

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FC3, NT 4 PDC, auth problems after upgrade
by Martin Marques 02 May '05

02 May '05

I finished upgrading a few weeks ago my RH 7.3 server to FC3, and I'm having trouble with an NT server which is the PDC of the domain. The problem is that my samba server si configured to autenticate against the PDC server (euler.matematica) when ever someone wants to get a resorce: security = server password server = euler.matematica This is an old configuration which worked for years, and after upgrading to FC3, when ever someone want's to log in to the PDC (euler.matematica), they get pass OK, but they can't get there profiles from the samba server, as well as no other resorce from it. In the log files I get this: [2005/05/02 08:54:36, 1] auth/auth_server.c:check_smbserver_security(263) the challenge that the password server (EULER.MATEMATICA) supplied us is not the one we gave our client. This just can't work :-( Can someone give me a hint. I can't find any kind of documentation on it. -- 09:37:14 up 30 days, 18:06, 1 user, load average: 0.79, 0.48, 0.40 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martín Marqués | select 'mmarques' || '@' || 'unl.edu.ar' Centro de Telematica | DBA, Programador, Administrador Universidad Nacional del Litoral -----------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: what 'user' are acpi scripts run as? Forcing DCOP to look atcurrent user?
by Birt, Jeffrey 02 May '05

02 May '05

This is strange! This is the perl script which controls the back light and screensaver depending on the lid switch position. # Manage the backlight. Even if we're not going to sleep, it makes sense. if ($will_sleep==0 && $device eq "LID") { if ($lid_state eq "open") { # reopening. backlight "on"; system "su -c '/etc/acpi/actions/perl_dcop.pl false' birtj"; print DEBUG "It's off\n"; } elsif ($lid_state eq "closed") { #closing. backlight "off"; #system "dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface enable false"; } } This works fine if I call it manully from a root console. If it's called from via the acpi lid switch event the backlight is turned of but the screen saver is not turned off. I assume this is some wierd permissions related problem. Something like a script called by the 'system' can't call a script as a diffrent user? I'm lost any ideas? Thanks, Jeff_Birt -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com on behalf of Matthew Miller Sent: Sat 4/30/2005 11:58 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: what 'user' are acpi scripts run as? Forcing DCOP to look atcurrent user? On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:54:23PM -0500, Birt, Jeffrey wrote: > I am assuming that the acpi scripts are run as 'system' (or what ever the > Linux equivelent is) and therefore any DCOP related calls are looking at > the 'systems' DCOP server not the current user. I believe they're executed as root. > So, can I force a script to run as another user? that is have the acpi > script which is being run as 'system' call another script as the current > user? Yes -- use 'su -c' to do this. -- Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 76 degrees Fahrenheit. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

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Matrox G550, two monitors, tvtime
by James Kaufman 02 May '05

02 May '05

I have two monitors being fed by one Matrox G550 video card. I have a Pinnacle TV card as well. I can run tvtime on the first monitor and all is well. If I try to run it on the second montor, I see the error message: xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images. Any thoughts? Pointers? Thanks. -- Jim Kaufman Linux Evangelist public key 0x6D802619, CISSP# 65668 --- The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

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X doesn't start
by Deboo ^ 02 May '05

02 May '05

I had a normal working X a few days back. I have a dual bot system and needed an app for a few days to work on som eproject so did not boot in to linux for some days. Now when I boot in to linux, neither do I get the gdm screen for login nor can I start X from console. I got the error : "Failed to load default font fixed. This PC has an Intel 865GF MB which is not detected by the kernel 2.4.x which I'm on but still X was doing okay. I tried booting off of knoppix and copying knoppix's XF86Config but now I get the error : No screens found. How is knoppix able to start X and when I copy i t's XF86Config, that doesn't work? I kept looking for some tool to configure X, but there's no console tool I could find. There used to be xf86config in old RH systems but even that is not in Fedora, stramge! I have searched the Fedora install CDs but there's no such tool This raises another question: Is there a rpm equivalent to Debian's apt-cache search and apt-cache show commands? Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list.

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apache/gnome service question..
by bruce 02 May '05

02 May '05

hi... i've had to build apache1.3.33 on a FC3 system. apache2 normally sits in the '/etc/httpd...' dir structure. apache1. seems to be placed in the /usr/local/apache...' dir structure.. can anybody tell me how i can configure/build apache1 to be placed in the same area as apache2...? also, the apache1 doesn't show up as one of the services in the Gnome service listing. can anyone point me to how i can get it to show up as one of the services, or can you point me to a site on the web with this information. tried to search with google, but didn't find anything useful... -bruce bedouglas(a)earthlink.net

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a2ps problem
by Michael Hennebry 02 May '05

02 May '05

Since changing from RH9 to FC3, a2ps is misbehaving. The default behaviour, (-2), gives me virtual pages with 68 lines and 80 columns apparently without reducing the font width. The left pages run into the right, the right pages run off the page. Room for 68 lines was apparently achieved by skimping on the inter-line space. What's going on? What can I do about it? -- Mike hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* ONLY TURN UP ONCE." -- Death

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